[Leaauthors] Leonardo cfp - ArtScience: The Essential Connection

[nisar keshvani]

Call for Papers

ArtScience: The Essential Connection

What is the value of artistic practices, techniques, 
inventions, aesthetics and knowledge for the working 
scientist? What is the value of scientific practices, 
techniques, inventions, aesthetics and knowledge for the 
artist?
When does art become science and science, art? Or are 
these categories useless at their boundaries and 
intersections?

Can an individual excel at both science and art, or is even 
a passing familiarity with one sufficient to influence the 
other significantly? Do the arts ever contribute 
significantly to scientific progress? Where will current 
scientific innovations lead the arts in the next few 
decades? 

Leonardo will publish a series of special sections over the 
next 3 years devoted to exploring these questions. 
Submissions can be from artistic scientists who find their 
art avocation valuable; from scientist-artist collaborators 
who can demonstrate a scientific or artistic innovation; 
from scientifically literate artists who draw problems, 
materials, techniques or processes from the sciences; or 
from historians of art or science looking at past examples 
of such interactions.

Interested authors are invited to send proposals, queries 
and/or manuscripts to Guest Editor Robert Root-
Bernstein, 2201 Biomedical Physical Sciences Building, 
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-3320, 
U.S.A.
E-mail: rootbern at msu.edu.

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